Jutha Gupah, Maiduguri
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno state, has commissioned the Chibok water project to serve several communities in the Chibok Local Council of the state.
The project is sited in Mboa village, to distribute potable water for over 40, 000 residents living in various communities.
Inaugurating the completed mega water facility, yesterday (Wednesday), at Mboa, Borno State, the Governor disclosed: “This project has the capacity to store and distribute 1.25 million litres of potable water to residents of several communities.”
According to him, the water facility has a water storage capacity of 750, 000 litres of surface and 500, 000-litre overhead tanks to serve over 40, 000 residents.
Besides the water storage capacity, he said that the Mboa water sources are to be powered by 20 motorised boreholes.
On the challenges of potable water, he said: “The major challenge in Chibok town, has been the lack of potable water for the teeming population.”
He lamented that the Communities had been attacked severally with the abduction of 276 Chibok school girls at Government Secondary School by Boko Haram insurgents on April 14, 2024
He said that the completion of the water project, was in fulfilment of his electioneering campaign promises to the people of Chibok in April, 2019.
“I am happy to be here to commission this project,” he said, stating that he commended the Commissioner of Water Resources, Tijjani Alkali for a job well done for the community and other villages in Borno south senatorial district.
Conducting the governor round the project, Alkali explained that the water project is powered by 36,000 watts of solar and a 100 KVA generating set.
After the water project in Chibok, Zulum stopped over at Gumsuri, a community in Damboa Local Council to commission completed Senior Secondary School on the same day.
The inaugurated blocks of classrooms are to accommodate about 1, 000 students with the distribution of bicycles to prevent them from coming late to school.
Each of the students was presented with sets of uniforms, text and exercise books, as well as bicycles to ease their means of transportation.
